17.05.2024, Aleksandrovskoye.
The Islamic Revolution in Iran was largely due to the Western elites’ fear of Iran’s impressive achievements in modernization, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on April 19 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
According to the political scientist, the formation of the case of of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran had a very complicated internal structure. The philosopher believes that certain social sentiments and discontent with the regime as well as certain religious renaissance indeed took place in Iran similarly to those under Mubarak, Ben Ali or Gaddafi, and they mostly appeared due to quite objective processes.
“This whole objective basis for the Islamic Revolution existed, but something else existed, too; certain part of the West believed that this revolution was really necessary. The idea was to establish Islamic radicalism everywhere, which would not be too aggressive in promoting industrial and progressive development of the countries in science, technology, and defense, but which would exist in a sort of new Middle Ages,” Kurginyan said.
According to the philosopher, the West planned to throw this kind of Islamic radicalism against the Soviet Union or against any other competitor states using it as a special factor in the basis of a world designed by the Club of Rome, a world of non-development of the peripheral humanity.
The leader of Essence of Time believes that throughout the 19th century all the colonial acquisitions of the West were legitimized by what Kipling called “the White Man’s burden.” According to the political scientist, it was declared that the authoritarian national regimes that they established would reproduce Western trends, pursue catching-up modernization and Westernization, and be operated by pro-Western people, whom they would call “son of a bitch, but our son of a bitch.”
“All this concept of the authoritarian modernization and Westernization of the periphery failed for the first time in Iran after it turned out that for the vanguardist Western elite coming to power a developing Iran was much more dangerous than a radically Islamic and non-developing Iran. This was claimed straightforwardly, because the Shah of Iran had one intention that looked criminal for the West: he began to industrialize Iran,” the philosopher said.
Kurginyan notes that the transformation of Iran from an agricultural state to an industrial one was not intended to militarize it; its priority was to develop metallurgy rather than nuclear weapons. And after the achievements in modernization became obvious, the Western elites became scared as they did not need such a national state.
“The Western elite did not want it, it scared it, and it had already decided that new Middle Ages must come there, and the Khomeini regime was to become part of it,” the political scientist said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
